Jeanne Robinson (1948–2010)
Auteur de La danse des étoiles
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Authors Spider Robinson and Jeanne Robinson at the 2004 Necronomicon. Photo by C. A. Bridges. (Via Wikipedia)
Séries
Œuvres de Jeanne Robinson
Pulphouse: A Weekly Magazine #0 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Seventh Annual Collection (1977) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVII, No. 3 (March 1977) (1977) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
I Premi Hugo 1976-1983 — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Robinson, Jeanne
- Nom légal
- Robinson, Jeanne Marie Rubbicco
- Autres noms
- Rubbicco, Jeanne Marie (birth)
- Date de naissance
- 1948-03-30
- Date de décès
- 2010-05-30
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
Canada - Lieu de naissance
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - Études
- Boston Conservatory
- Professions
- choreographer
dance teacher
science fiction writer - Relations
- Robinson, Spider (spouse)
- Organisations
- SF Canada
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Nebula Award (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 9
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 1,770
- Popularité
- #14,549
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 45
- Langues
- 4
“Stardance” is a story about a dancer who risks her health by staying too long in orbit where she is performing a new and revolutionary dance sequence; then aliens turn up who as it turns out communicate only through dance, and she makes the breakthrough on behalf of humanity before dying romantically. The narrator is the ex-dancer turned cameraman who loves her from (mostly) afar.
I'm not a huge fan of dance, though I thoroughly enjoyed Giselle in Bratslava last year, and much longer ago a royal command performance in the Hague in 2004. On the other hand, one of the silliest things I've ever seen was a solo interpretative dance about the love of God, performed in lieu of a sermon at a church I was visiting in Munich in 1992. On the other hand again, the choreograhy is an important part of what makes the Hamilton stage show so memorable. Anyway, it's not especially my fandom, but the Robinsons drew me into it.
But I do wonder how one could actually dance in zero gravity? The whole mechanics of dance are about balancing movement against weight; I can't imagine that you could do the same without anything to dance on, as it were. And the protagonist does her last dance wearing a spacesuit, which seems even more improbable.… (plus d'informations)